The use of chatgpt reduces critical thinking, the discovery of MIT scientists. Is Homo Sapiens giving way to “Machina Sapiens”?

Just think! Why strive if there is a car that can do it in our place, and moreover in extreme speed and precision? If the mankind has really decided to self-condirent to anger, a starting point could be the progressive “voluntary” abandonment of certain cognitive faculties, increasingly delegated to an intelligence that “lives” and evolves outside our head. Is Homo Sapiens (dangerously) giving way to the “Machina Sapiens”? The suspicion is there.

Also for this reason some scientists of the Mit Media Lab they conducted a study in Boston, from which some emerged worrying results. Scholars divided 54 subjects, between 18 and 39 years old, in three groups and asked them to write several essays using Openai’s chatgpt respectively, the Google search engine, and nothing.
The researchers then used an electroencephalogram (EEG) to record the authors’ activity in 32 cerebral regions and found that, of the three groups, Chatgpt users presented the lower cerebral involvement and “constantly obtained lower results in the neural, linguistic and behavioral level”. Over the several months of study, as their essays made their essays, chatgpt users have become more lazy, often resorting to copy and paste at the end of the study.

The study of the American University highlights The risk connected to a systematic use of chatgpt, to damage critical thinking skillsa rather relevant question especially for younger users, who rely on artificial intelligence software even in the school field.

Children are the most at risk

Although it is a study that needs further insights – and with a relatively small sample – the main author, Nataliya Kosmynahowever, considered it important to publish the results immediately. A choice dictated by the concern that – considering that the company makes increasingly entrusting on LLM (Large Language Models) for convenience – Long -term brain development could be sacrificed in the process. “What really motivated me to publish the study now, that is, before waiting for a complete peer review, is that I fear that in 6-8 months there will be some politicians who will say:” We make the GPT nursery school “. I think it would be absolutely negative and harmful, “commented the scholar, as reported Time. “Development brains are the highest risk.”

According to the scientist, further studies are also needed that also explore the impact of the use of AI on the conservation of memory, on the creativity and fluidity of writing, structures and brain skills raised and perfected during the evolution and which in this way we could risk losing.

The future with agi

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Today, an increasingly higher sticker, is pushing to reach theAgingtheGeneral artificial intelligencethat is, a form of AI who knows how to reason in all respects as a human being (without emotions or feelings, of course). “For some time, the large computer companies in the world have been given this new ambitious objective: a form of artificial intelligence that performs the same tasks typical as human beings, at the same level of competence,” he explained In Cristianiniphysicist and professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Bath – author of various books on AI, including Machina Sapiens and the last Superhuman – Guest of the television program Code On Rai 1. «A single machine that does all our duties at the same level of ours: this is what they call general artificial intelligence or agi. There is not yet, it seems that it is not so far away, “said the scholar.

Considering its ability to self-learning, and the speed with which it is able to evolve, we do not know what the future of artificial intelligence can reserve for us. However, what we know is that the way in which it is used, if not adequately regulated and structured, can produce anything but indifferent effects on our intellectual skills, especially in the development phase. It is necessary to learn to manage it in the right ways and think immediately. Since we are still able to do it.